{"id":14343,"date":"2017-11-15T14:55:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T12:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/?p=14343"},"modified":"2017-11-15T14:55:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T12:55:37","slug":"authy-solution-to-2fa-pains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/15\/authy-solution-to-2fa-pains\/","title":{"rendered":"Authy, solution to 2FA pains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, I have been known to push for the use of two-factor authentication for as many web sites as possible. Through the use of an app running on my smartphone, I can provide a code that is much safer than the SMS text message sent by some web sites and that can be used anywhere (even when there is no GSM network).<\/p>\n<p>For years, I used Google authenticator applet on iOS. I knew that it would be a pain if my phone stopped working (or if I replaced it). The only reason I was OK with this, was that I had setup Google authenticator on two phones (I happen to have one for business and one for personal use &#8211; don&#8217;t ask why&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Actually, replacing one of these smartphones pushed me into testing <a href=\"https:\/\/authy.com\/blog\/authy-vs-google-authenticator\/\">Authy<\/a>\u00a0as a replacement for Google. And I should have done this earlier. There is no way I will switch back to Google after this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/authy_logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-14348\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/authy_logo-300x85.jpg\" alt=\"Authy logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/authy_logo-300x85.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/authy_logo-600x170.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/authy_logo-150x43.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/authy_logo-768x218.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/authy_logo.jpg 874w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Authy provides:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A cute user interface<\/li>\n<li>Shared accounts between several phones (and a fast way to switch from one old phone to a new one)<\/li>\n<li>All the needed 2FA bells and whistles (compatible with the TOTP standard)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In thirty\/forty minutes, I recreated all the factors for my accounts (e.g. Google, Outlook, Evernote, Dropbox, or even Ubisoft). And this was needed because I could not transfer this <em>knowledge<\/em> from the old phone to the new (even though I had both phone working in front of me). But in three\/four minutes I could extend it to my other phone. So, any time I need to replace a phone, I can extend\/transfer in a matter of minutes, independently of the number of web sites are included in Authy.<\/p>\n<p>I feel much safer. What would have been happening if I had lost\/broken my phone with the codes from Google Authenticator? (graceful degradation, no risk of losing access to many web sites at a time in case of a single failure).<\/p>\n<p>I feel much more positive about extending my use of 2FA\/two-factor-authentication to\u00a0 much more web sites because of the added ease of use (longer-term commitment).<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, <a href=\"https:\/\/authy.com\/download\/\">Authy is available for several Operating Systems<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>iOS<\/li>\n<li>Android<\/li>\n<li>Windows<\/li>\n<li>Google Chrome<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Go and install it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, I have been known to push for the use of two-factor authentication for as many web sites as possible. Through the use of an app running on my smartphone, I can provide a code that is much safer than the SMS text message sent by some web sites and that can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,29,1252,1085,79,2338],"tags":[2339],"class_list":["post-14343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-google","category-internet","category-ipad","category-iphone-apple","category-security","category-windows-10","tag-2fa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}